imagined that the Messiah could be born of a humble girl like Mary … Let us learn from her, the Woman of Advent, how to live our daily actions with a new spirit, with the feeling of profound expectation that [...] (France, December 8-14, 1947) Let us learn from her, the Woman of Advent Expectation or waiting is a dimension that flows through our whole personal, family and social existence … One could say that man [...] this Season which prepares us for Christmas, can ask himself: What am I waiting for? What, at this moment of my life, does my heart long for? And this same question can be posed at the level of the family

One holding me together! Praying that the Lord will protect them with His Most Precious Blood together with Mama Mary covering them with her mantle of protection!” The same prayer for divine intervention [...] to a Philstar newspaper column on women’s lives under quarantine: “One of the many agonizing moments of our lives under quarantine is being separated from the members of my family. My husband is a surgeon [...] y daughter a hepato-pancreatico-biliary fellow and my son a neurosurgical resident. Ever since the pandemic my children have to isolate themselves from us for fear of contaminating us with the virus. Lately

rich spoils, the captain ordered John to guard the treasure, especially a chest filled with jewels, for the night; John obeyed with a sad face. The next morning, the chest of jewels was missing. John questioned [...] to him, "Trust me. I will save you." John awoke, recited one Hail Mary with enthusiasm and felt consoled. He walked to be hanged with a firm step. He promised the Good Mother to give up soldiering, if she [...] He did not doubt Mary’s help for one moment. John, in the gallows, declared his innocence. And added, "I have confidence that the Blessed Virgin can still help me." The drum beat a second time and the

rich spoils, the captain ordered John to guard the treasure, especially a chest filled with jewels, for the night; John obeyed with a sad face. The next morning, the chest of jewels was missing. John questioned [...] to him, "Trust me. I will save you." John awoke, recited one Hail Mary with enthusiasm and felt consoled. He walked to be hanged with a firm step. He promised the Good Mother to give up soldiering, if she [...] He did not doubt Mary's help for one moment. John, in the gallows, declared his innocence. And added, "I have confidence that the Blessed Virgin can still help me." The drum beat a second time and the

day he saw a man in a church and recognized him as being the same man that he had seen during the night. He threw himself into his arms, and holding him on his heart, he kissed the saint with affection [...] "You are my brother in arms; you will walk in step with me and the enemy will not prevail against us." He then told him about his vision and from that moment on, they shared one heart and one mind in God,

One day in a New York bar in 1936, he found himself face to face with Bishop Fulton Sheen. He started a heated debate with the priest, when suddenly Sheen retorted, "And now let's talk a little about [...] born in a very fervent Catholic home in Indiana. At 20 years of age, he left home, because he had fallen in love with a divorced woman. Later, the social question moved him to passion. He became a powerful [...] about the Blessed Virgin!" This long "Marian" hour gave Louis Francis a moment of the inner peace that reminded him briefly of his First Communion, but the true return of the "prodigal son" was going to take

saints, united in the respect and in the love of a pure and fecund community, began the journey of their life with Christ and for Christ. For Him and with Him they went from Nazareth (whose name means Garden) [...] Family was the Ark of the Covenant The Holy Family was a missionary community. In fact, the mission of Christ became the missionary vocation of Mary and Joseph who put their freedom at the Son’s disposal [...] Salvation. The Holy Family was the Ark of the Covenant, carried in the exodus of life. It was and it is a school of the gospel. Here we learn to observe, to listen, to meditate, and to penetrate the profound

Virgin Mary had come anyway to the Cova da Iria on August 13th. 18,000 people were there. They first heard a strike of thunder, then saw the reflection of a light, and immediately after the crowd saw a small [...] small cloud that hovered for a few minutes above the oak tree, then rose up to the sky and disappeared. At that moment there appeared a man-sized rainbow. Our Lady had indeed, apparently, kept her appointment [...] parents of the Fatima seers were ordered by the county administrator to appear at noon the next day, with their children, in Vila Nova, seven miles away. The administrator interrogated Lucia in order to make

thought of with nostalgia. 2. The Rosary is experiencing a new Springtime. Without a doubt, this is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the young generation nourish for Jesus and His Mother, Mary. 3. [...] Most Holy Name of Jesus, invoked with faith and love at the center of each "Hail Mary." 8. The Rosary, when it is not a mechanical, traditional form of repetition, is a biblical meditation that allows us [...] reciting the Rosary, the important and meaningful moments of salvation history are relived. The various steps of Christ's mission are traced. 5. With Mary the heart is oriented towards the mystery of Jesus

Gabriel is sent to her—not simply to a virgin, but to a virgin betrothed to a man, in order that by means of the betrothed man he might shew that Mary was really a human being.’ And for this reason Scripture [...] as Nature clearly shews that it is impossible for a virgin to produce milk unless she has brought forth, and impossible for a body to be nourished with milk and wrapped in swaddling clothes unless it has [...] in order that Himself taking what was ours and offering it as a sacrifice, He might do away with it, and conversely might invest us with what was His, and cause the Apostle to say: ‘This corruptible must